Scars in the Light

[Verse 1]
I hated the light
'Cause it found my skin
Every little line
I kept tucked in

Years on my body
Years I couldn’t name
I wore my silence
Like a second name

[Pre-Chorus]
Then you looked at me
Like you already knew
I could feel the room
Pulling on the truth

[Chorus]
Scars in the light
Scars in the light
I tried to hide them
I tried all night
Scars in the light
Scars in the light
You saw the story
I kept outside

[Verse 2]
Someone asked me soft
“How’d you get those marks?”
I said, “Just my animals”
And laughed it off in the dark

But my face went hot
And my throat went thin
I hated being seen
For what I kept within

[Pre-Chorus]
Then you looked at me
Like you already knew
I could feel the room
Pulling on the truth

[Chorus]
Scars in the light
Scars in the light
I tried to hide them
I tried all night
Scars in the light
Scars in the light
You saw the story
I kept outside

[Bridge]
Maybe I’m not broken
Maybe I’m just marked
Maybe every wound
Leaves a kind of art

And if your eyes stay gentle
I might let you in
I don’t need to vanish
Just to fit my skin

[Final Chorus]
Scars in the light
Scars in the light
I tried to hide them
I tried all night
Scars in the light
Scars in the light
You saw the story
And stayed beside it

[Outro]
Scars in the light
Scars in the light
I don’t look away
When you look tonight

Alt-pop ballad with steady midtempo pulse, spare piano verse, pre-chorus lifting into stacked harmonies, chorus opening with wide drums and aching electric guitar; intimate close-mic lead, doubled chorus hooks, soft ad-lib echoes, a reverse swell into each chorus and a final lift with airy backing vocals; polished but raw, bright and emotional, light, bright, beautiful